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Soulmates are people on your wavelength- the ones that you resonate with your shared soulsong. They can be friends, lovers, a client, a patron or a family member; anyone who you have a connection with that is something special.

Breq is certain she is not a person, and therefore, has none. That's what she believes, anyway.

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Seivarden was a respected officer once, and now she's a respected officer again, but there was a long space in between. Inevitably, someone someday was going to see Mercy of Kalr Lieutenant Seivarden and recognize the desperate drifter who'd had a very expensive habit and very few marketable skills; she knew that. It didn't make it any easier when it happened.

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At some point post-series, that "clone our own ancillaries" project gets off the ground successfully, and Mercy of Kalr finally gets to have a body of its own again. Seivarden, a good and dutiful lieutenant, helps out with the test-drive. (Totally gratuitous spaceship/lieutenant fluff. Look, Mercy of Kalr has been through a lot, and if it wants to design itself a smoking hot biomech and then bang an officer, it deserves to design itself a smoking hot biomech and then bang an officer, all right?)

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"Ghosts that were wont to manifest themselves [...] tended to belong to one of the following (often overlapping) categories of the 'restless' dead. [...] Ataphoi: 'those deprived of burial.' Whatever the circumstances of death, a ghost could not achieve rest without the due funeral rights..." ['Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds']

On the way to Omaugh Station, Seivarden tries to do the right thing, and Breq tries not to care about what Seivarden is trying to do. Neither of them is sure if they succeeded.